Despite current tensions with the American president over today's speech to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his administration are requesting an additional $317 for Israel's missile-defence programmes. Full Story

Israeli soldiers kidnapped three children on Tuesday, including a seventh-grade schoolchild, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after searching his bag and locating a compass that he uses in his classes. Full Story

Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Qabatia, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on Tuesday at dawn. During the invasion, the soldiers shot and injured a young man, while scores of residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Full Story

Several Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of Israeli extremists, living in a nearby illegal colony, attacked on Monday evening, five Palestinians Palestinians in a their farmlands, near Bethlehem, and kidnapped them. Full Story

A video posted on Facebook Monday by a right-wing Israeli politician, then quickly removed, showed graphic evidence of what Palestinians have reported to be a common Israeli military practice: using dogs to attack unarmed civilians, including children. Full Story

The Israeli army has called up some 13,000 reservists, sending 3,000 to a surprise training mission in the occupied West Bank, in preparation for a possible escalation of violence in the Palestinian Territories. Full Story